Of critics, the one I can least stomach is the thunderstealer who slyly and regularly goes in for the "As someone has aptly remarked" and the "As someone has cleverly observed" stuff. He is the kleptomaniac of criticism, the shoplifter in the literary jewelry store, the left-handed glory grabber. He is a critic in the sense that a phonograph is an opera singer. He is the oyster in the pearl. He borrows the cigar, borrows the tip-clipper, borrows the holder, borrows the match - and then congratulates himself warmly on achieving by himself the climacteric grand spit. [George Jean Nathan, Répétition Générale]